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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Medway Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Medway website
1,869 approved · 5,068 refused · 1,708 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 14 May 2000 to 27 Sept 2027. Most recent record check: 15 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Riverside Country Park 333 Lower Rainham Road Rainham Gillingham ME7 2XH
Received 6 May 200933 Trubridge Road Hoo St Werburgh Rochester ME3 9EN
Received 14 May 2009Plot 1 Anthony's Way Medway City Estate Rochester Kent
Received 8 May 20098 Horsted Way Rochester ME1 2XY
Received 27 Apr 2009141 High Street Halling Rochester ME2 1BT
Received 21 May 2009Rochester Grammar School For Girls Maidstone Road Rochester ME1 3BY
Received 19 Mar 200951 Cleave Road Gillingham ME7 4AX
Received 7 May 2009The Ips Training Group Ltd Northbank House Sir Thomas Longley Road Medway City Estate Rochester ME2 4DU
Received 14 May 2009Plot 20 Knights Road Strood Kent
Received 29 Apr 20099 Cecil Avenue Gillingham ME8 6EH
Received 27 Apr 2009Flat 5 Robertson Villas 17 New Road Rochester Kent
Received 14 May 200947 Wainscott Road Wainscott Rochester ME2 4LA
Received 27 Apr 2009Cliffe Pools Cliffe Rochester Kent
Received 19 May 20095 Parsonage Lane Strood Rochester ME2 4HP
Received 20 Apr 2009New Road County Primary School Bryant Street Chatham Medway ME4 5QN
Received 5 May 2009Medway Maritime Hospital Windmill Road Gillingham Medway ME7 5NY
Received 14 May 2009The Robert Napier School Third Avenue Gillingham ME7 2LX
Received 17 Apr 2009St Marys Island Cea Primary School Island Way West St Marys Island Chatham Medway ME4 3ST
Received 6 May 2009113 Glencoe Road Chatham ME4 5QF
Received 1 Apr 20097 Boundary Road Chatham ME4 6TS
Received 1 May 20095 Tanker Hill Rainham Gillingham ME8 9EW
Received 24 Mar 2009232 City Way Rochester ME1 2BN
Received 18 May 200939 Robin Hood Lane Walderslade Chatham ME5 9NR
Received 1 May 200989 Marshall Road Rainham Gillingham ME8 0AN
Received 28 Apr 2009Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Medway Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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